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Europa has only a tenuous atmosphere of oxygen, but in 2013, NASA announced that researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope found evidence that Europa might be ac… See more
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Europa (moon) - Wikipedia
Europa is slightly smaller than the Earth's moon. At just over 3,100 kilometres (1,900 mi) in diameter, it is the sixth-largest moon and fifteenth-largest object in the Solar System. Though by a wide margin the least massive of the Galilean satellites, it is nonetheless more massive than all known moons in the Solar System smaller than itself combined. Its bulk density suggests that it is simila…
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- Surface area: 3.09×10⁷ km² (0.061 Earths)
- Average orbital speed: 13743.36 m/s
Europa: A guide to Jupiter's icy moon | Space
WEBMay 3, 2023 · Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter and one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter. See more facts about Europa and its …
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Europa - NASA Science
WEBEuropa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons. It's the sixth-closest moon to the planet. Europa and Jupiter’s three other largest moons – Io, Ganymede, and Callisto – were the …
Europa Up Close | Why Europa – NASA's Europa Clipper
WEBThe surface of Jupiter's moon Europa features a widely varied landscape, including ridges, bands, small rounded domes and disrupted spaces that geologists call "chaos terrain." …
Europa: Jupiter's Ocean World - NASA Space Place
WEBMay 6, 2015 · The Short Answer: What is Europa? Europa is one of Jupiter’s moons. Scientists believe that Europa is especially notable because it may have twice as much water as Earth, though it is so cold …
Overview | Why Europa – NASA's Europa Clipper
WEBScientists describe Europa as an "ocean world" because decades of evidence from analysis of spacecraft observations strongly suggest that an ocean of liquid water is hidden beneath the moon’s surface of ice.
Europa, moon of Jupiter - The Solar System on Sea and …
WEBEuropa was discovered by Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius in 1610 and is one of the Galilean satellites. As with the other moons of Jupiter, most of what we know about Europa was learned from the Voyager and Galileo …
Europa (Moon) Facts
WEBEuropa is named after a woman in Greek mythology who was the daughter of a king. She was supposedly one of Zeus’ many lovers and was made the queen of Crete. It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. Europa is …
Jupiter's moon Europa - Phys.org
WEBSep 30, 2015 · Europa takes 3.55 Earth days to complete a single orbit around Jupiter, and is ever so-slightly inclined towards Jupiter's equator (0.470°), and to the ecliptic (1.791°).